Step bike lane

Brandenburg Gate

Estampe

Tower

Artistic Text Shape

Among the cool new feature of Karbon 2.0, there is the Artistic Text Shape. It’s a single line text (unlike it’s sister, the text shape), which can be associated with a curve to do crazy things, or with a gradient:

Since it’s not a highly discoverable feature of Karbon, I wrote a small tutorial to demonstrate the feature: Tutorial on Artistic Text Shape.

With Anne’s tutorial on layout in KWord, this is our second tutorial for KOffice 2.0, but we need more of them, and we are looking for help in that area, since userbase is a wiki, go there, register, and start writting something, if you need advise, contact us on the forum.

Sunset

Karbon 2.0

Of all the application of KOffice 2.0, the one most ready is trully Karbon. It’s also the one for which the progress since 1.6 is trully the most visible, and in 2.0, karbon is mostly a path editor (which is no doubt the central feature of a vector graphics application), and it’s already working quiet well, definitively worth a try.

For a few monthes, I have already been using it, when I have to produce figures for my phd. And while I usually feel more confortable drawing with a pixel application (in other word Krita), I decided to make something more artistic with karbon, here is the result:

Red

Winter

Spiky brushes

Since KDE 4.0, erm, I mean KOffice 2.0 is nearly its released, it’s time to have a little bit of fun before going back to polishing and improving, and since the tag of RC1 last week, trunk is opened to features again. First completed features was to have a look at the now 4 years old autobrush, and to do some minor adjustement to its UI, and to add a little features.

Instead of width/height we now have diameter/ratio, this doesn’t change much, but makes more sense with the addition of spikes, since the diameter now correspeond to the length of a spike, and the ratio to the thickness. And the fade is now expressed in percentage of the size, this avoid adjusting the fade when increasing the size of the brush.